To answer the questions about my theme. 1. How to get the border less theme. I made a copy of a theme I liked, echo in my case. To get rid of the borders along the top and left side I edited the image files located in /usr/share/themes/theme name/images/ qgn_plat_theme_thumbnail.png qgn_plat_home_status_bar_background.png qgn_plat_task_navigation_background.png I used Gimp to edit the images. I just removed all the color leaving only the transparency. There are also some files under the theme directory that will need editing for the name of your copied theme, I'll post the file names later (I'm at work).